Awards for All Grant Announcement

Thursday, 19th May 2016

Number of Grants: 82

Total Awarded: £693,133

Project Location Grant Summary

Apprentice Boys of Antrim and The group received a £3,445 grant to provide three trips for members £3,445 Derry Murray Club, Newtownabbey to explore the history of the Apprentice Boys organisation and produce Antrim Branch a book of its history for members.

St Joseph’s Primary Antrim and The school, which is based in Crumlin, has been awarded £10,000. £10,000 School Newtownabbey They are using the grant to install a Foundation Stage 1 play area so the children can take part in physical activities all year round.

St Comgall's Primary Antrim and The school is based on the outskirts of Antrim Town. The project £10,000 School Newtownabbey received a £10,000 grant to build a trim trail to give young children a fun and engaging physical play area within the school grounds.

Madden Raparees Armagh, The club, which is based in Madden, Co Armagh, promotes Gaelic £10,000 Banbridge and games, culture and community activity. The project is using a £10,000 Craigavon grant to refurbish part of their building to make it into a gym and space for the whole community to use.

Mullintur Ulster Scots Armagh, The organisation runs events and cultural activities in the Mullintur £10,000 Improvement Banbridge and district of Armagh. They are using a £10,000 grant to make Committee (MUSIC) Craigavon improvements to their hall so it can be used for more community activities.

The Birches Cosy Club Armagh, The volunteer led group organises activities for older people in the £9,980 Banbridge and Dungannon area. They received £9,980 to run a year-long programme Craigavon of events including IT, crafts, music, and exercise.

Family Research & Armagh, The organisation helps people within Markethill and the wider south £9,213 Policy Unit Banbridge and Armagh area. They are using a £9,213 grant to refurbish their building, Craigavon buy equipment and run a youth leadership programme.

Royal British Legion Armagh, The group provides assistance to their members who are ex-service £10,000 Rathfriland Branch Banbridge and men, women and their families. They have been awarded a £10,000 Craigavon grant to build stronger links with the local community by hosting events and activities.

Orchard Social Club for Armagh, The group, which is based in Armagh, provides a social venue for local £4,306 Visually Impaired People Banbridge and people with visual impairments. The project received a £4,306 grant to Craigavon run a programme of activities including theatre outings, day trips and group dinners.

Enable: NI Limited Armagh, The Richhill, Armagh based group supports children, young people and £9,842 Banbridge and adults with a learning disability in Co Down and Co Armagh. They have Craigavon been awarded a £9,842 grant to buy equipment for camping trips which are an alternative to traditional residentials for adults with learning disabilities.

Royal Irish Fusiliers Old Armagh, The group provides welfare and friendship for its members and their £10,000 Comrades Association - Banbridge and families. The project is using a £10,000 grant to run commemoration Portadown Branch Craigavon activities and events to mark 100 years since the Battle of the Somme. It includes a trip to England for a wreath laying and commemoration at the graves of those killed in World War One.

Regenerate Armagh, Regenerate is a community development group that provides practical £9,244 Banbridge and support to people and community groups in the Portadown area. They Craigavon received a £9,244 grant to buy equipment so they can turn a vacant building into an inclusive community space for a variety of groups to run cross-community training, events and activities.

Cormeen Social and Armagh, The group runs activities and events for people of all ages in Cormeen, £9,951 Economic Regeneration Banbridge and Co Armagh. The project is using a £9,951 grant to make improvements Partnership Craigavon to its building so it can continue to be used for community activities.

Middletown Friendly Armagh, The club runs social activities for older people in the Middletown area £1,553 Club Banbridge and of Co Armagh. They have been awarded a £1,553 grant to hold an Craigavon event to celebrate their 30 year anniversary and buy equipment for meetings.

Aghavilly Youth Club Armagh, The club organises events and activities for young people in the Milford £9,002 Banbridge and area of Armagh. They are using a £9,002 to run a programme where Craigavon youth club members take part in activities with young people and adults who have a physical or learning disability.

Clounagh Primrose Armagh, The group, which is based in Craigavon, provides a community venue £9,715 Development League Banbridge and within an Orange Hall. The project received a £9,715 grant to make Association Craigavon improvements to the hall so it can be used by more community groups, create a base for a social enterprise and provide better access for people with disabilities.

Federation of City Belfast The organisation supports, represents and promotes community £10,000 Farms and Community gardens, allotments and farms to help communities grow. The project Gardens (FCFCG) is using a £10,000 grant to run a pilot scheme which will work with four community garden projects in north Antrim to set up support networks and create sustainability plans.

Holy Trinity Centre Belfast The organisation based in Turf Lodge in west Belfast offers a range of £7,920 services for people in the local community. They are using a £7,920 grant to run counselling sessions for families to help strengthen and maintain relationships.

North Belfast Belfast The organisation works to improve the local area. The project is using £9,100 Partnership Limited a £9,100 grant to run a programme of networking events to showcase the positive work of community organisations across North Belfast, to share learning and promote community spirit.

Artillery Youth Centre Belfast The group provides services to young people aged 15 - 25. They £9,869 received a £9,869 to run personal development and training courses including catering skills, cooking and food preparation.

Seniors on the Shore Belfast The group brings together isolated older people living in the Shore £2,590 Road areas of north Belfast. They are using a £2,590 grant to run activities and events for members including IT classes, dance classes, jewellery making and outings.

Cairde Bhunscoil Bheann Belfast The organisation provides support and organises activities and £8,075 Mhadagáín fundraising for the school Bhunscoil Bheann Mhadagáín in north Belfast. The project received £8,075 to deliver extra-curricular English language reading classes for pupils.

Light & Life Coaching Belfast The organisation delivers life coaching, team building and cognitive £9,280 CIC behavioural therapy to improve mental wellbeing. They are using a £9,380 grant to train people in west and north Belfast to become peer mentors to those in their communities.

Cedar Lodge Special Belfast Cedar Lodge is a special school in north Belfast for pupils aged £9,988 School between 4 and 16. They received a £9,988 grant to expand their current counselling service by running services for both parents and children. They will also run parenting/carer workshops.

Groundwork Northern Belfast The north Belfast based group works with groups across Northern £9,058 Ireland Ireland to make improvements to local communities. The project received £9,058 to work with 50 Men’s Sheds across Northern Ireland to deliver training in food safety, emergency first aid and health and safety workshops.

Bunscoil an tSleibhe Belfast The playgroup, pre-school and primary school is based in Ballymurphy £8,172 Dhuibh in west Belfast. They are using an £8,172 grant to buy iPads and IT equipment for an IT suite for use by the pupils and the wider community.

Easy Come Easy Sew Belfast The east Belfast group promotes skills sharing in crafts, including £1,567 Community Group crocheting, knitting and paper crafts. The project is using a £1,567 grant to run activities to improve members’ skills and buy new materials and equipment.

LifeReach NI Belfast The group works with families and communities in inner south Belfast. £9,758 They are using a £9,758 grant to provide practical DIY, decorating, gardening and domestic support. They are providing help through volunteering and holding four events throughout the year designed to bring communities together.

Cliftonville Community Belfast CCRF is an umbrella group for community organisations in the £9,964 Regeneration Forum Cliftonville area of north Belfast. In partnership with young people Limited they are using the £9,964 to design and deliver three weekend residentials, and to provide training and equipment.

Inverary Community Belfast The organisation provides a service for people in the Inverary area of £9,425 Centre Committee east Belfast. They are using the £9,425 to provide a range of programmes for all ages in the local community including a volunteer development programme, a youth summer scheme, a parent and toddler summer trip, a senior’s programme and a youth café.

East Belfast Area Youth Belfast The group works with young people under 25 in inner east Belfast. It £10,000 Project received a grant of £10,000 to provide parenting classes, accredited training courses with childcare and a weekend residential for young mothers.

The Immaculata Belfast The group provides community sports activities for men in the Greater £8,788 Football Club Falls area. They are using the £8,788 to deliver events and activities for local men including a training and employment programme. They will also use the money to buy IT equipment and hire venues for events.

Queen's Film Theatre Belfast The organisation is a dependant branch of Queen's University Belfast £10,000 and uses film as a tool for education and social and community engagement. They received a £10,000 grant to deliver an outreach programme starting in the summer for young people aged 14 – 17 to produce short video documentaries and fictional pieces around the theme of identity for three films, which will be showcased at a celebration event at the QFT. Tar Isteach Ltd Belfast The group offers support to former prisoners in the north Belfast area. £6,000 They received £6,000 to identify assets and needs of 100 ex-prisoners Get extra info on this who are disconnected from the community. It will point them towards for background services, training courses, volunteering opportunities and community activities available locally to integrate them with the community and improve their health and wellbeing.

Northern Ireland Belfast The organisation cares for people who have life limiting and life £10,000 Hospice threatening conditions. They are using the £10,000 to deliver their Music For Life project, which provides music therapy to people with life limiting conditions in day care and in-patient settings in their Newtownabbey centre.

Gort Na Mona GAC Belfast The organisation provides community, social and recreational activities £9,700 in west Belfast. They are using the £9,700 to refurbish and improve the club facilities.

Manor Belfast The group provides social, educational and recreational services for £7,147 Street/Cliftonville the residents of the local area in north Belfast. They are using the Community Group £7,147 to create a men's shed project with workshop and community garden on the interface land at Manor Street.

Strand Arts Centre Belfast The organisation in east Belfast aims to restore the Strand as a high £10,000 quality, sustainable creative arts space. They are using the £10,000 to provide a cross-community digital media project for young people including programmes in film making, DJ skills, and PR and photography, to promote good relations.

Garvagh Development Causeway Coasts The group supports people in Garvagh and the surrounding area. They £9,982 Trust and Glens are using the £9,982 to create a forest school, which will be a shared learning space for the community. The project includes forest school training, cookery demonstrations and crafts.

North Coast Integrated Causeway Coasts The Coleraine school is an all ability, secondary level, integrated £9,500 College and Glens school. The received a grant of £9,500 to provide an indoor climbing wall within the college gym, which will also be made available to community groups and pupils of other schools.

Stranocum & District Causeway Coasts The organisation supports the local community. They are using the £10,000 Development Group and Glens £10,000 to deliver events and activities for the whole community including a summer scheme, educational classes and recreational activities.

Arthritis Care Coleraine Causeway Coasts The group provides a place for members to meet others who have the £2,479 Branch and Glens same condition as them and offer mutual support. The received a grant of £2,479 to fund training activities and equipment for the group.

Gortrighey AOH & Causeway Coasts The organisation uses their community facility to hold meetings and £9,960 Community Hall and Glens events. They received £9,960 to make improvements to the hall, which is outside the village of Rasharkin, to encourage greater use by the wider community.

Ballerin Gaelic Athletic Causeway Coasts The group is based in a rural area near Garvagh in north Co Antrim and £9,780 Club and Glens provides a range of sporting activities and a venue for community events. They received a grant of £9,780 to provide a programme of fitness training and mental health workshops for the wider community.

North West Forum Of Derry and The group promotes the rights of people with disabilities in the £5,947 People With Disabilities Strabane Derry/Londonderry area. They are using the £5,947 to extend the reach of the group by creating a website and providing IT equipment and associated training, and specialist communications resources for people with hearing impairments.

Maydown Olympic Derry and The organisation is a newly formed boxing club in the Strathfoyle and £1,743 Amateur Boxing Club Strabane Maydown area of Derry/Londonderry. They received £1,743 to provide first aid and defibrillator training, and buy a defibrillator.

Rural North West Derry and The group provides a venue in Newtownstewart, Co Tyrone, for the £9,990 Community Support Strabane community and voluntary sector across the North West. They received £9,990 to make improvements to their building and to engage a sessional worker to expand the range of services provided.

Enagh Youth Forum Derry and The group is a voluntary independent youth led community based £7,000 Strabane organisation. They received £7,000 to work with 300 young people to identify their needs and share the findings with statutory agencies and other local groups to shape the services they need.

Cumann Baire Na Magha Derry and The group promotes hurling and camogie in the Derry/Londonderry £8,946 Doire Strabane area. They received a grant of £8,946 to buy furniture and IT and fitness equipment for the new club house.

Strabane and Lifford Derry and The group delivers a wide range of social projects and services to £10,000 Resource and Strabane isolated men and women in the Strabane area. They received a Development Group £10,000 grant to make improvements to the group's new premises and buy equipment.

Shantallow Community Derry and The group provides a range of services and activities for local men. £9,998 Residents Association Strabane They are using the £9,998 grant to buy a polytunnel, run trips and Men’s Support Group events and for youth facilitators to provide people with opportunities to make improvements to their community.

Feeny Community Derry and The organisation supports the Feeny community. They received £10,000 Association Limited Strabane £10,000 to improve the health and wellbeing of members of the community by introducing them to a new range of health and wellbeing activities.

Lisnaskea Mother and Fermanagh and The group runs a mother and toddler group in Lisnaskea, Co Fermanagh £3,037 Toddler Group Omagh and also organises wider community events and activities. They received £3,037 to provide training for parents on healthy eating options, first aid and parenting skills.

Regal Historical Group Fermanagh and The organisation, based in Enniskillen, brings together local people £6,900 Omagh with an interest in the history of the area. They received £6,900 to buy equipment for the building so they can facilitate more community events.

Kesh Primary School Fermanagh and The school provides primary education for children in the Kesh area. £8,445 Omagh They received £8,445 for their project which will give the opportunity for all Key Stage 2 children to invite an older relative into school to learn how to use iPads.

Tyrooney LOL 1275 Fermanagh and The group hosts community events and activities in their hall. They are £10,000 Omagh using the £10,000 to make improvements to the hall and make it more suitable for facilitating activities for the wider community.

Hearing Link Lisburn and The group provides support to people with acquired hearing loss and £9,985 Castlereagh their families. They are using the £9,985 to deliver a programme of courses across Northern Ireland on self-management and rehabilitation as well as promoting peer support and providing community based activities.

Royal Ulster Rifles Lisburn and The group organises events for armed forces charities in the Lisburn £7,000 Association Lisburn area. They are using the £7,000 to provide a seven day visit to Jersey Branch Castlereagh for 22 members of the organisation.

St John's Parent Teacher Mid and East The group supports families, pupils and the wider community at St £9,661 Association Antrim John’s Primary School in Carnlough. They received a £9,661 grant to provide 27 iPads and accessories for use out of class time.

Seaview Primary School Mid and East This Glenarm primary school received £9,517 to buy new equipment for £9,517 Antrim the children and the local pre-school to use during breaks and for after school activities. They will also provide a sensory room of particular benefit to pupils with special needs.

Ballymena Unit Sea Mid and East The organisation works with young people aged ten to 18 to teach new £10,000 Cadet Corps Antrim skills, leadership and team working through nautical adventure activities. They are using the £10,000 to buy a boat, motor and road trailer.

Ballykeel Together Mid and East The group provides community activities in the Ballykeel estate in £8,903 Development Antrim Ballymena. They are using the £8,903 for a range of activities for the Association community including intergenerational arts and crafts, dance classes and family outings.

Carntogher Community Mid Ulster The association supports the community in the Carntogher area. They £9,040 Association received £9,040 to buy a generator and defibrillator and for an emergency booklet covering issues such as electricity failure, flooding, heavy snow and community rescue events within the Carntogher and Maghera area.

Wolfe Tones GAC, Mid Ulster The group runs a GAA club in the village of Bellaghy, in south Co. £9,837 Bellaghy Derry/Londonderry. They received a grant of £9,837 to support people in the area to lead a healthier life including consultations with dieticians, a programme of cardiovascular activities, and cookery demonstrations.

Carricklongfield Cultural Mid Ulster The organisation, based near Dungannon, provides a wide range of £9,230 Group community activities and events for all age groups. They received a grant of £9,230 upgrade the premises and to buy a defibrillator that the local community will be trained to use.

Kilnacart RBP 882 Mid Ulster The group, based near Dungannon, provides a hall for the local £9,900 community. They received a grant of £9,900 to make improvements to the hall so it can be used for more activities and events.

Bann Valley Community Mid Ulster The group provides a wide range of activities for all age groups from £9,960 Group the community in the rural area of Portglenone, Co Antrim. They are using the £9,960 to make improvements to their hall.

Fallaghloon Community Mid Ulster The group manages a community hall outside Maghera, which is used £10,000 Hall for a range of activities including cultural, sporting and community events. They received £10,000 to upgrade and improve the surface of the car park to make the building safer and more accessible for people using the hall and the local playgroup that is based there.

Eire Og Gaelic Football Mid Ulster The club is a community based voluntary group that promotes Gaelic £1,720 Club Clogher games, culture and community involvement. They received £1,720 to improve the club’s kitchen to allow them to cater for more events to include the whole community.

Newry & Mourne Newry, Mourne The organisation, based in Newry, supports and provides therapies for £9,975 Multiple Sclerosis and Down people suffering with MS. They received a grant of £9,975 to upgrade Community Therapy the group’s Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy chamber and provide social Centre media training and upgrade IT and office equipment. Youth Initiatives (NI) Newry, Mourne The group is a Northern Ireland wide youth work organisation. They £10,000 and Down received a grant of £10,000 to deliver weekly classes and activities for young people in the Downpatrick area.

The Space NI CIC Newry, Mourne The Downpatrick based organisation supports young people in the £8,847 and Down music industry. They received £8,847 to help young people develop future opportunities in the music industry and deal with mental health issues through music therapy.

Annsborough Community Newry, Mourne The voluntary organisation aims to improve the quality of life for £9,685 Forum and Down residents of Annsborough and the surrounding area. They received £9,685 to provide equipment and resources to furnish the newly built community hall, and run community activities for local groups.

Schomberg Society Newry, Mourne The Kilkeel organisation facilitates community activities and events £9,000 Kilkeel Ltd and Down and supports the local community. They are using the £9,000 to develop a strategy and plans that will set out what the organisation plans to do over the next five years in terms of community development and services.

Confederation Of Newry, Mourne The Newry based organisation provides a wide range of community £6,230 Community Groups and Down programmes, projects and initiatives. They received £6,230 for a project that provides respite activities for older carers.

Friends of Cullyhanna Newry, Mourne The group is a voluntary parents’ association that supports pupils at St £9,996 School and Down Patrick's Primary School in Newry. They received £9,996 to provide 30 iPads and accessories for use by pupils and their families.

The Northern Ireland Newry, Mourne Cancer Fund for Children provides emotional, theraputic and practical £9,388 Cancer Fund for and Down support to children and young people diagnosed with cancer. They Children received £9,388 to refurbish the Narnia Log Cabin, a purpose built youth facility in the Mourne Mountains.

Spa LOL 620 Newry, Mourne The organisation provides facilities and events for the local community £9,635 and Down in Spa in Co Down. They received £9,635 to make improvements to the group's premises so it can be used for more community activities and events.

Camlough Rovers Newry, Mourne The Co Armagh club offers community activities and support. They £8,301 Football Club and Down received £8,301 to provide training programmes and to make improvements to the community facility.

Newry Agricultural Newry, Mourne The group is a voluntary community organisation which has been £6,806 Society and Down running an agricultural show each year in Newry since 1869. They received £6,806 to provide additional safety measures and new equipment for competitions.

Newtownards Sea North Down and The group works with the community to develop new skills in both £9,611 Cadets Ards water based and land based activities. They are using the £9,611 to link with Beyond the Battlefield to deliver a multigenerational project that includes 90 hours of water based activities to 400 young people and current and ex-service members.

Carrowdore Early Years North Down and The group is a pre-school and after-school centre in Newtownards. £4,547 Centre Ards They are using the £4,547 to develop an outdoor classroom and work with the community to create natural outdoor spaces and play experiences for the children.